It’s been way too long? It’s been a year. How often do you think you should be coming out with new iPads? Every half year? (like when you introduced iPad 4 in the fall after you introduced the ironically titled “New iPad” the previous spring?)

I’ve been a Foursquare user for years. I had about two dozen mayorships. I would check in at about 10 locations per day on average. I have deleted the now useless app and I’m scratching my head at why Foursquare has decided to abandon its core users like me.

@dj12 (#1): Well, based on the FAQ above, I don’t think it’s so much that developers have a choice, but simply that they have to agree to new contract terms before the feature is enabled. Sooner or later—probably by the time iOS 8 is released—I expect devs will be forced to agree to those terms one way or another. So it’s not really an “opt-in” thing for developers, but rather just a fact that there’s a new agreement in place for how it’s handled.

That said, the IAP limitation is certainly more worrisome. Hopefully developers who have previously built free/paid versions of their apps by leveraging IAPs will create and/or continue to offer standalone versions that can be bought in the traditional manner. Still, unless Apple puts in warnings for end users explaining that IAPs cannot be shared before allowing users to make them, there are going to be a lot of people caught by this restriction.

Posted by Jesse Hollington in Toronto on June 5, 2014 at 1:50 PM (CDT)

I think this feature may be DOA. If devs have to opt in to explicitly let people use the same app on many devices for no extra charge, and if families aren’t able to share IAPs, I don’t really see much incentive to use it on either end of the transaction. People will just continue to share the same iTunes account.